Best Professional Image Workflows (pdf)
D I G I T A L General information. This draft document is produced by IQA digital to explain the fundamentals of imaging best practice. We invite your detailed suggestions to improve this draft before it is distributed more widely. This guide is designed to help organisations in imaging to deli...
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Copying Best Practice (pdf)
Introduction A previous Reps’ Bulletin, “Promoting Office Health & Safety”1 looked at general office hazards and welfare issues. This bulletin2 examines in more detail an ever present feature of all offices, photocopies and laser printers, and also provides a revised ‘office hazards checklist’ tha...
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Océ More Than Dots and Pixels (pdf)
Measuring Quality for Black & White and Spot Color Printing Print Quality - Human nature being what it is, the disruptive technology of Gutenburg’s printing press doubtless had detractors who questioned the quality of the pages the early presses produced. Half a millennium later, print quality is s...
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Print Application and Market Study (pdf)
This white paper provides information on specific applications that are best suited for digital electrophotographic (EP) presses and the print customers who utilize these applications. It was based on extensive interviews with printers in both the US and Europe in addition to focus groups comprise...
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Industry Trends - 2004 Survey Results (pdf)
During the fourth quarter of 2003, The Electronic Document Systems Foundation (EDSF) conducted a survey of 525 individuals representing a cross section of the .document. industry concerning their future plans for 2004. Never before has such a large sampling of users, vendors, consultants been availa...
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What makes Magnetography the Technology of choice? (pdf)
Introduction Its endurance in an industry that has seen other printing technologies and companies come and go is a testament to the inherent value to the user of this non-impact printing technique. Simply put, magnetography is an excellent imaging technology, and its implementation by Nipson has pro...
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Save Paper
Use Less Paper This simple advice is the easiest step to protect the environment. It also will save you money and there is less need to store or recycle paper. Eliminating the unneccessary use of paper avoids the harmful effects of the paper producti...
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How To Buy A Copier
Pricing For those with a general interest or who are planning to purchase a home printer, the following guidance should assist. Prices for digital copiers have come down recent years. But there is a very large variance in pricing even among similar...
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Colour Management and Paper
Overview The term colour management originates in the field of traditional offset printing. Historically, the correct mix of the four basic colours, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, was determined by hand to achieve the desired colour. Technology repl...
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Recycling Facts & Figures
In 2003 14% of household waste was recycled or composted in England and Wales as opposed to 40% of industrial and commercial waste. Material Recycling In E...
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New Recycling Figures
New unaudited recycling figures released by Defra show that households in England recycled over 20% of their waste in 2004/05. This means a 100% increase within the past four years. The numbers differ widel...
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Paper And Environment
Overview Trees as a source of paper fibre have only been used for a little over a hundred years. It was the rapidly increasing demand for paper caused by the printing industry that demanded great amounts of a consistent fibre, which only the apparentl...
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Green Printing
Traditionally, the printing and repro industry has been associated with wasting natural resources and damaging the environment. In particular, litho print shops used to be a messy affair, where spilled ink and waste paper filled the workspace and chemicals were poured down the sink. But just as many...
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Forests In Britain
Tree Cover In 2004, the tree cover in England was 8.5% and 13.8% in Wales. In the past, most of Britain was covered by natural forests, similar to other European countries. But forests had to make way for agriculture, housing and industry. As a result...
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Copier Suppliers and Environment
Preface The world of reprographics is changing fast. While the traditional printing industry was and often still is associated with the use of chemical which pollute the environment, the poisonous ink which comes off the newspapers and the huge waste...
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Cartridge Recycling
Recycling has become a significant business in the industrialised world. The rapid development of toner and ink jet cartridge recycling shows the potential of making money, moving away from the traditional school and NGO collection into a highly organised and profitable industry. The growth of recyc...
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Canon Cartridge Recycling
Preface For every 100,000 recycled cartridges 9,599 kg of aluminium and 40 t of plastic (which equals 1,000,000 litres of oil) are saved. Manufacturers of copiers and consumables have increased their efforts to recycle their products and simplified...
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Internal Client Communication
Collaboration The seamless collaboration between inhouse printing facilities and departments of a corporation has become more important since many central printrooms have been transformed into self-perform businesses or carry budget responsibilit...
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Common Copier Terms
Automatic Exposure Control Adjusts automatically the amount of light necessary to properly expose the selected original (coloured paper, poor quality original). Analogue Copier Lens and mirrors ...
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Copiers: An Introduction
Preface Copier technology has advanced tremendously since Xerox introduced the first fully automated plain-paper photocopier in 1959. Modern machines resemble computers rather than the first Xerox 914: combining copying, laser printing, faxing, scanni...
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